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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-05

T OST-A BLACK GREYHOUED, ON SATUR-
II day last; has white spot on his breast and
broken tee on the left hind foot. The finder
will be rewarded by returning it to the owner at
40S L street. TB CT d5
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-05

you want a Number One Carpe.
on short notice, send it to MARY S. cow
500 NJ street. ~
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-05

STRAYED-A REDDISH BROWN MARE, ,
- years old, rather understood. Return to
Capital Packing Company and receive reward.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15
Frank Gillett Receives $1,000.

Frank Gilictt, Of this city, the lucky
holder of one-tenth part of tickets 6l,-
sos in The Louisiana State Lottery,
drawing 10000 on the 18th inst, re-
ceived a package yesterday by the
Wells-Fargo express containing $50
crisp twenty dollar bills. Returns
were made in just niue days from the
time the ticket was forwarded from
here for collection.
To q reporter for The News Mr.. Gill
lett stated that he had been investing
in this lottery every month for the past
two or three years, never, except on
two occasions, investing more than a
dollar at a time. The total amount he
has invested up to the present time
will not exceed $50.
He never drew anything prior to this
time, but he kept right on, feeling that
he stood as good a chance to win as
anyone. and his confidence was reward
ed. Mr.. Gillett says he shall continue
to invest in the lottery every month,
notwithstanding bis good fortune.
While he was talking to the reporter, a
etter was delivered to Mr.. Gillctt,
when contained his ticket for the next
monthly Neutrality-suspicious. (Neb.)
News, Sept. %.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

St. Louis Republican: Champagne
s not stored in the London dock vaults
but Oh the upper floor Of the dock
warehouses. The Russians, who used
70 rival the United States in champagne
drinking, ae fast giving up that wine
and betaking themselves TO port.
There was lot more than half a mill
ioB bottles of champagne taken in Rus
STA last year. The English cannot un-
derstaud the taste of Americans for
new champagne. The Impression APP
pears 10 prevail in the United States
that champagne deteriora IS after it i,
three or four years old, and il is sad
this impression, for reasons Of their
own, has been fostered by The trade in
that country. The English and French
laugh at this. They do not touch
champagne until it is at least seven Of
eight years old, and a large dealer who
was looking at some Of his sock in The
warehouse said he had champagne OF
the vintage of 1868, which was much
sought alter.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15
A Woman Of Tact.

The Casual Observer of the New
York Graphic says: Every body looked
at them when they entered the car,
which vas crowded. And everybody
had good reason. He was Il very clean
skinned, finely built. well dressed and
very handsome young man, a very
coed sample of Americas best make.
She was a beauty from any point of
view, a pronounced beauty of II very
pronounced type, a rich brunette. She
was dressed with exquisite taste. Both
were SO easy and natural in their mar
ners that it was "a pleasure to look at
them. A gentleman gave the lady a
seat then another, n good-looking.
well-mannered young man, gave his
seat to her escort, very much against
the Eaters will. The conductor began
to collect the fares. He touched the
young mans arm lightly. He stared,
thrust his hand into one pocket, then
into another, then, rs the ewes of every
body were on him, he paused to think.
Before he could speak, the lady said in
low tones; How stupid of me! Ide.
clare. when you banded me your pock-
etbook TO hold in the store, when you
turned TO catch that child. | forgot to
give it back to you" She handed it
out, blushing. He took il, paid the
conductor, placed it in his pocket and
the conversation flowed on without a
break. Commend me to a woman of
tact. A nan would never have
thought Of that in q thousand wears.
Ot course it was her po%cketbook.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

Upon the sysifp inflicted by disease OF the
kidneys and Of oder. They wreck the con-
stitution more S ,eedily In some cases thar
pulmonary type. As you value your life.
ARE I IA tendency 10 debility, and conse-
quent inactivity OF the renal organs. should
yon experience any such. lnfuse vigor and
ACTION OF the Kidneys with that saiutary
diuretic. Hostetter's stomach Bitters. The
proper degree OF stimulation Is impaired by
sluggish. With this timely check, Brlghts
disease, diabetis eatarrh OF the bladder, and
other kindred disorders. may be prevented.
Liver complaint, constipation. nervous ali
ments and rheumatism, are likewise con-
luerable with this sovereign household
remedy. Against the effects or exposure n
damp Or otherwise Indictment weather, Ii Il
a.benign. safeguard, aud r~evives. strength
after undue fatigue.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

nodded her little head at me with an air OF
sublimated coquetry that would have done
credit to a Venus Nictrix.
Rash man." she said; like Act9on,
thou hast had thy will; be careful lest, like
Action, thou too dost perish miserabiy,
torn TO pieces by the ban-hounds Of thine
own passions. | too, oh, Holly, am q vir-
gin goddess, not to be moved Of any man;
save one. and it is not thou. Say, hast thou
seen %enough?'
Il have looked on beauty, and am blind
ed" | said, hoarsely, lifting my hand TO
cover up my eyes.
"Soi what did | tell theeP Beauty is like
the lightning; it is lovely, but it destroys
especially trees, Oh, Holly"
Suddenly she paused, and through my
fingers | saw an awful change come over
her countenance.
Man." she half whispered, half Kissed,
throwing back her head like a snake about
to strike-"man, where didst thou get that
scarab on thy hand? Speak, or by the
Spirit of Life / will blast thee where thou
|standesti' and she took Que light step to-
ward me-, IL from her eyes there shone
such an awful light-to me it seemed al
most like n fiame-that / fell then and
there, on the ground before her, babbling
~confusedly in my terror.
There she said, with a sudden change
OF manner, and speaking in her former soft
voice, 81 did alright thee. Forgive me.
But at times, oh, Holly, the almost infinite
mind grows impatient of the slowness of
the very finite, and | am tempted to use
my power out of sheer vexation. Very
nearly vast thou dead, but | remembered.
But the scarab-about the ~scarabpus!'
Il picked it up" / gurglcd, feebly, as l
got on TO my feet again-and it is a solemn
fact that my mind was SO disturbed that at
the moment | could remember nothing
else about the ring except that / picked it
up in Leo's cave.
ut is very strange" she said, with a sud
den access of womanlike trembling and
agitation that seemed out of place in this
awful woman, but once | knew n scarab
like that. 1t-hung round the neck-of
one | loved" and she gave n little sob, and
| saw that after all she was only q woman,
although she might be a very old one.
"There, Z" she went on, lit must be one
like it. Also in old Egypt many there were
who bore the name Of the Royal Son of
Ra. The scarab hat | knew was not set
thus in the bezel of ring. Gonow, Holly,
go, and, if thou canst, try to forget that
ihon hast looked upon Ayesha's beauty"
and turning from me, she flung herself on
her couch, and buried her face in the cush-
ions.
AS for me, l stumbled from her presence,
and / do not remember how 1 reached my
own cave.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

possible that ], Il rational man, not unac-
~qaaintel. with the Lending scientific facts
Of our history, and hitherto m absolute
and utter disbaiicver in all the li0cus-pocus
that IN Europe goes by tac name OF The
| supernatural, could believe taat / had with
in the last few minutes been engaged in
conversation with a oma two thousand
and odd years old? The thing was contrary
to the experience of human nature, and
absolutely and utterly impossible, Non
sense; il must be nonsense. She had warned
me fairly, and | had refused to take the
warning. Curses on the fatal curiosity
that is ever prompting man to draw the
veil from woman, and curses on the natur-
al impulse that begets it! ], at my age, to
fall Il victim to this modern Gree! But
then she was not modern, at least she said
not. She was almost as ancient as the
original Circe.
10 he continued
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

| now / saw it; only this beauty, with all its
full loneliness and purity, was eyil-at
| least. at the time, il struck me IA evil.
How am | TO describe it? | can aot-sim.
| ply, | can not. The man does not live
whose pen could convey a sense of what
| saw. | might talk Of the great changing
eyes of deepest, softest black, of the tinted
face, OF the broad and noble brow, on which
the hair grew low, and delicate, straight
features. But, beautiful, surprisingly
beautiful, rs they all were, her loveliness
did not lie in them. It lay rather, If il can
be sail to have any fixed abiding place, in
l.a visible majesty, in an imperial grace, in
| a godlikc stamp Of softened power, that
| shonc upon that radiant counteuance like
a living halo. Never before had ] guessed
what beauty made sublime could be. and
yet the sublimity WAS a dark one, the glory
| was not all Of heaven. though none the
less was it glorious. Though the face be-
fore me was that OF a young woman in
| perfect health and the first flush of ripeued
beauty, yet it had stamped upon il II look
of unuttcrable experience, and of deep ac-
quaintance with grief and passion. Not
| even the lovely smil. that crept about the
dimples OF her mouth could hide this
shadow of sin and sorrow. 1t shone even
in the light OF the glorious eyes, it was
| present in the air of majesty, and it seemed
to say: "Behold me, lovely as no woman
| was or is, undying and half divine. Mem
| DRY haunts me from age to 6 and passion
leads me by the hand. Evil have / done,
| ard with sorrow haze | made acquaiut-
ance from age to age, and from age TO age
evil | shall do, and sorrow shall | know
till my redemption comes.'
Drawn by some magnetic rprce which ]
| could not resist, | let my eyes rest upon
her shining orbs, n felt n current pass
| from them to me that bcwiidered and half
blinded me.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

II yoa ave pain in the baek, pale and sal
low complexion. bilious or SICK hf adsche
crupuons on the skin, coatei tongue, slug.
Y'sh circulation, or a hFcking cough, pou nrt
going into vorr grave /. YOU az nor tskrAats
~ care yoarsrif. II you ar wise yen VIII q
this by the use ~ D.. P,erce's sGoldrn Ne6i
cal DHc fv-ry,n conn pounded OF rna moat eff
cscioas ingredients known tom d,ca, science
TOR giving heath sud strength TO ,he ssstem
nroigh TIRE mediuu OF the liver ana the
ht00a.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

A clergyman, after gears OF suffering from
shat loAthsome disease, c~atarrn. aud vainli
trying every known remedy, ~ last found \
prescription which %compsettl, cured aud
saeed tfn from death any sufferer from
this dreadful disease senGipP n aa.f addressed
etempFd envelope to pot. j. 4. Lawrener,
2t} East 8 b " New YprS, Vii receive thr
recipe free 81 charAe.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

Life seems hardly WORT the iiyingto-day TO
mahy "A tired, 0nhappt, discouraged
~ho is suffering from carop.c female weak
ness for whicn she has been able TO lind
no relief. Bat there is a~certain cure for ali the
painfui con- laints 10 which The weaker sex is
liable. We refer 10 D. Perce's ''Fav0r,te
Pc scrtptjoD," 10 the virtues OF which thou
sarCs OF wCman can testify. AS q tonic and
nervine 1t il unsurpassea. AL druggists.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

kanopoi!s, Kansas, lie ,he most remarkable
CITY In the country on account Of its growth
within two years. We have some choice
building lots there for business and residence
PURPOSES, which we offer for sale the next 30
days below the prevailing market price.
send for descriptive circular. Address
The SIOUX City PRINTING Co,
sioux CITY. Ia.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15
Offer No. r1y-

FREE!--TO MERCHANTS Only: A
genuine Meerschaum Smokers Set,
Give pieces), in satin-lined plush case.
Address at one X. w. TANsILL g. Co.,
IS State Street, Chicago.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

Farmer DAVID l. Dickinson. 81 Chatham,
y. l., makes a specially Of raising owls. He
Is q ,kIGai tayiGernf>t, and makes Il good
tea' ri money y thu sale ~ thc stuffed pet
tnrne Tits year h. fias eleven hTools OF
Young OWL.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

A horse NJ Roofing. Pa stsptpa M on q
little d ~ that VAS I ariing 1T it Isl the street,
but Immediately teDdirg down his head, b.
gan licking the little sufferer, and uIt,riog
sounds Of genuine sorrow.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

At Nou'gpinCy y. " y. rnrse was a frsst
on the I'm ut 81 heavy tnsr ~ could be
srooped up with the Maud after s O'Clock In
the morning. Ire formed on lewlanas. and
tbe thermometer etood ore csg,ee below
free Zipg potrt.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

L was nearly ten O'Clock
at night when | cast my
self down upon nay bed,
aud began TO gather my
scattered wits, and reflect
upon what | had seen and
heard. But the more / re-
fected, the less ! could
make Of it. Was mad, or
drank, or dreaming. or
was | merely che victim Of
q gigantic and most eiab-
or1tp hoax Uov was it
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

-suhurh.n residing IS reported & owing In
popularity, and on this serfunt and 10 efca &
high rents there are, 1t j. said, 600 empty
houses IN Portland, Maine.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

"A sad locking man has been visiting far
mers IN ohio and asking them TO sign u
pledge not 10 Kill any song birds for q year.
Aftrrwa,d these pledges returned Ia the
SHAPE OF promissory notes.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15
.Royal Glue" Msnos Evsryshu..l

Broken China. CHASE, Furniture, ornaonena
Leather. etc. Everlasting t%enscnet Af4ay.
liquid and ready. Free ssmp'e VI is ~ 5rtq
gtsts and sroccrs.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

-Ooe mile Of new electric roa has been
laid in Oakland, California. Thc electricity is
CONVEYED BY wires TO conductors in d co1duit
midway between the tracks.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

IL Ia said toa' hawks are FRI quently seen
hSing souihwa'd on tae approach OF winter,
Dat are never seen or the return figh hi,
Though found again In the north when the
winter Is uast.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

Letters and business papers are easy to
Had when wanted, IL njed IN an Ambers
Cabinet Letter die. Cameron, Amberg IL 60.
manufacturers Chicago.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

Judge Walton, OF Co.'s icana, Tex. has
performed the marriage ceremony fer 1SS
couples during the past eighteen months.
His revenue fri m this source exceeds 9. 600.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

Davenport Business College, complete In n.
departments. For catalcsras, address, J. T..
Duncan, BavenDort, jlowa.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

II acougA disturbs your sleep, take Pso's
Cure for Consumption ard rest well.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

There Is great scarcity Of water il
Louisville, but the Mayor has not teiegraphed
appe iis To other towns for contributions O
demj Inns OF water for the sufferers.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15
The Riot Act Read 70 Rioters.

Advocates of anarchy and Of dynam-
rule will be very scarce in this country
after November ll.-Chicago Journal.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-14

and therefore thorough, careful, and
honest In doing their work. Captain
Whalen has had as good an opportunity
as any one could have to watch the
work Of inspection on the water fronts,
and he considers the present organiza-
ton under Mr.. Beattie wonderful its
nearness to perfection. Asan evidence
OF the thoroughness OF the work, he
cites the fact that the customs revenues
on the whsrves have doubled within
recent months. This he attributes
partly TO the work OF the women, as
some of this gain has been since their
appointment. "In August" says the
CAPTAIN. "the women will have an OPP
rortunity to show what they are worth.
The arrival Of passenger ships averages
about seven day, andin Augustine more
popular lines will carry 400 to 500 pas
sengers. The women serve every day.
hut Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and
Monday are their hard days. Some
times their work keeps them out late,
and their hours are necessarily irregu-
lar. In winter there is but little travel,
though every vessel must be visited.
Captain Whalen said that there was
much curiosity on the wharves to see the
women inspectors at work, but the IN
spectresses themselves were very much
in earnest and were more careful than
the inspectors in searching the hidden
recesses Of the trunks and packages for
whatever the Government had claim
upon.
Secretary John A. Mason, OF the
Civil. Service Commission, furnished the
reporter with the questions that were
asked of candidates for the position OF
inspectors. The first paper was an
exercise in writing from dictation. The
examiner read distinctly at the rate OF
fifteen or eighteen words minute, and
the applicant wrote as much as she
could of the passage, punctuatlng and
capitalizing as we'll as she knew how.
Then the, applicant copied a paragraph
having many figures in it and difficulties
of punctuation. The second subject
was arithmetic. The only sum in this
paper that was not simple addition or
subtraction was the following: "What
was the difference in amount received
in one year by two employees in the
customs service, one OF whom received
an annual salary of $1,000 and the
other q per diem of S2.40, deducting
fifty-seven days for Sundays and holt
DAVIS in the case OF the latter ?" The
tie third subject on which the inspec-
tresses were examined was letter
writing. The applicant was instructed
to address letter to the col
lector giving en- account OF her
educational experience and a state
ment of the qualifications she deemed
most essential fer the position for
which she was being examined. The
examination under these two heads is
quite an abridgement of that of the APP
plicants for inspectors positions. The
men are obliged to pass in geography
and the history and government OF the
United States and be able to compute
interest and discount. They also must
know something Of bookkeeping and
accounts. The responsibility of the
inspectors. however, extend to the dis
charging of the vessels, with which the
inspectresses have nothing to do.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-14

tivitics of this age, particularly as he
sees them in the busy city of which he
is one Of the most distinguished resi-
dents. eexcels as newspaper writer
and essayist, and is renowned as an
EDITOR who deals with current events
with broad view, and one that detects
the principles and relations of what is
going on with searching and just per-
ception.
This prophet of Chicago is OF Ger
man origin. He was born in Cincin.
natl, Ohio, On August %, 1890 and
was graduated at Miami University,
Oxford, Ohio, in 1852. His first en-
ployment was as instructor in Greek
and Latin at that institution, where he
was principal of the classical depart
ment. In 1866 he became pas
tor of a Presberterian church
in Chicago. lie was tried for heresy
in 1874, and was acquitted by the
presbytery. This epoch in his career
led to bis taking pastoral charge OF the
Congregational church, with WHICH he
is still connected. David Swing is best
known to mont hicagoans by his work
as editor of the Alliance, and the
authorship of "Club Essays" volume
which saw the light in 1880.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-14

Plunger Walton has an imitator in
tho person of some mysterious indi-
yidual who has been doing the Mon
mouth races of late. He has minis
terial cast Of countenance. talks to no
one, dresses quietly, and bets with
almost unvarying success. His win
nings this season amount to over $40,
COO. He lost $1,000 on one race last
week, but cleared $1,000 on the race
which followed.
Ex-Governor Moses, who knows how
it is himself, has written o !, 4O0-page
book on reform in prisons. In 1t he
alludes to the opium habit, to which 10
former years he was slave, but which
he is now free from, and relates his
own prison experiences in order, he
says, "that might add my individual
efforts to those which others are max
ing towards explaining tho subjest Of
prison reform"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-14
VIRGINIA ELOPEMENI.
Mr. Melton and Miss Smith, OF Mad.
issn, are Married In Washington.

lwa.hIngton Star of Yesterday
This morning Mr.. Peyton Smith,
of Haywood, Madison county, Va,
stopped at police headquarters and
asked the aid of the police in finding
George W. Meltos, carpenter of that
place, and George Smith, his daugh-
ter, girl of seventeen years, leaving
a description of them. He stated that
Melton had been paying attentions to
George and asked to marry her, but
they refused on account of her age /;
that the couple left home yesterday
morning in buggy and drove to Gull
pepper, and there left the buggy, saying
that they would be back this evening
Mr.. Smith, on arriving here this morn
ing, Immediately vert to the court
house, but failing to find that license
had been issued, became more appre-
hensiye for his daughters safety, and
therefore called on the police. Some
of the officers took the case in hand,
but in short time Mr.. Smith returning
to the courthouse met Mr.. Melton on
his way for license. The lady had
been left at Justice O'Neal's Office, and
the parties at once reconciled all differ
ence., the girl having last night stopped
with lady friend in the western part
of the city, and soon afterward the
party took q street-car for the minister 8
to have tho marriage ceremony per-
formed.